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Eating breakfast at an important Portland historical landmark (the diner behind which Jeff Gillooly left trash linking him to the Nancy Kerrigan assault)

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

the plants seem fine in the snow

We gotta make Scalia clerks into heroes? It's nice they have principles but it's still in service of darkness. These letters are like: "Sir! This is simply NOT how we put adorable forest creatures into a wood chipper here in AMERICA."

We gotta make Scalia clerks into heroes? It's nice they have principles but it's still in service of darkness. These letters are like: "Sir! This is simply NOT how we put adorable forest creatures into a wood chipper here in AMERICA."

Cleansing the timeline with a story about Czech beavers (I won’t elaborate). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...

Robert Plant: "I just wrote a song about a girl" Jimmy Page (relieved): "Cool! A love song?" RP: "Yes, about finding my true love" JP: "Great, a classic love song" RP: "Well it does take place in the darkest depths of Mordor. And there's a weird little guy" JP (under breath): "fuck, this again"

Evergreen writing tip from John Swartzwelder (creator of a tons of classic The Simpsons episodes, plus some very funny novels). This is from a rare interview, by Mike Sacks of The New Yorker, 2001. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Lumon is listening"

Hope Gianni Infantino gets robbed tonight.

Anyways, pitchers and catchers report this week! Let’s go baseball season!

Serenaaaaa

“What ever you do, you can’t win. So win!” 💯 So proud of this work! We’re just getting started! youtu.be/b0Ezn5pZE7o?...

Cracked the code on the file names in Severance.

if your beans didn't soften while cooking it's not because you salted too early. it's not because you added too much acid. it's not because the beans are too old. it's because you're impure of heart and the beans Know

Patrick Fugit at a house party with the Misshapes and Ultragrrl on assignment for Gothamist

government being destroyed by people that participated in the rick and morty sauce freakout

Relieved that the Substance was not a streaming series. You can’t make me care whether the Substance company is incorporated in Delaware (Episode 5)

"We can't figure out how to delete the state constitution from government servers, so this is our next best option."

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

They couldn’t make Cool Hand Luke today because that hard boiled egg scene would cost $35 million to shoot.

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Lemmings got into everything back in the day

I will lick home plate at Wrigley Field and swear fealty to the Chicago Cubs before I allow the CVS cabinet-unlocking app to invade my precious phone.